September 23, 2018

• Rev. Lara Hoke
• change
• fear

Just a few weeks into this new settlement, I tried to encourage parishioners to get past fears and to start thinking about changes ahead, even dreams, for First Church Unitarian.

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September 9, 2018

• Rev. Lara Hoke
• water

Like many Unitarian Universalist congregations, First Church Unitarian in Littleton has a Water Ceremony (sometimes called Water Communion) for its ingathering, homecoming Sunday. This was the all-ages reflection that I delivered that day, my first Sunday leading worship as the settled minister of FCU, September 9, 2018.

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September 1, 2018

• Rev. Lara Hoke
• meaning of life

I haven’t preached this at First Church Unitarian in Littleton… But this is the sermon your search team heard me preach back when I was a pre-candidate! Follen Community Church in Lexington recorded it when I was there on February 18, 2018, so here it is for the rest of you to watch if you like. And seeing as it’s your big chance to learn the meaning of life, you probably want to watch, right?

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May 6, 2018

• Rev. Steve Edington
• Help; Thanks; Wow—The Three Essential Prayers
• prayer

Help, Thanks, Wow—The Three Essential Prayers

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April 1, 2018

• Rev. Steve Edington
• Easter

The Easter story is being told in countless thousands of Christian congregations today. As varied the content of the Sunday services may be from one Christian congregation to the next over the course of a year, they are all on the same page today.

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March 25, 2018

• Rev. Steve Edington
• 1960s
• history

Culturally and politically speaking, what is generally referred to as “The Sixties” ran from, I’d say, late 1963 with the Martin Luther King March on Washington and the Kennedy assassination, and ended in the mid-70s with the end of the Vietnam War and the whole Watergate episode. However you frame it, it was a very tumultuous time in our nation’s history; and its legacy and meaning continue to be debated.

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March 18, 2018

The spiritual journey is about seeking—and occasionally finding—a sacred or holy or divine dimension to life that resides within this natural world we inhabit.

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March 4, 2018

• Rev. Steve Edington
• ministry
• stewardship

What I want to do this morning is to share with you some of the discussions I’ve been having with prospective ministers for FCU, and tie those discussions to the Stewardship Campaign that is now underway for your 2018-19 church year.

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February 25, 2018

• Rev. Steve Edington
• faith

My opening story has to do with how a major episode of self-doubt on my part proved to be a pivotal moment in my life.

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February 4, 2018

• Rev. Steve Edington
• loss

Sometimes when the bottom falls out of life we are set free. We attain enlightenment, or an enlightenment of sorts, so perspective, some clarity, some sense of reality, some sense of dealing with things as they are.

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